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British Artists’ Films: Jayne Parker (2008)

Director

Jayne Parker

Subject

Art; Film Studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 125 minutes), £19.99

The fourth release in the BFI’s British Artists’ Films DVD series features selected films from Jayne Parker’s 25 years of filmmaking. Included are one of her earliest animations I CAT; an early...

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R.W. Paul - The Collected Films 1895-1908 (2006)

aka: R.W. Paul - The Complete Surviving Films 1895-1908

Director

Robert W Paul

Subject

Film Studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 148 minutes), £14.99

Robert W Paul is justly celebrated as the leading pioneer of British film and one of the founders of world cinema. This collection of 62 films brings together for the first time the collected output of R W...

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They Stand Ready (1956 Video)

Director

Frank Bundy

Subject

Sociology

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. b&w. col. 19 min., 1996 sale: £19.95 (+p&p +VAT)

A recruiting film showing national servicemen posted to the Royal Armoured Corps taking part in tank manoeuvres in Germany.

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Storm over Asia (1928 Video)

aka: Potomok Chingis-Khana

Director

Vsevolod I Pudovkin

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

DVD

Set in Mongolia under the rule of British occupational forces, tells the story of a young trapper who appears to be the long-lost descendant of Genghis Khan. The people plan to set him up as Prince Genghis...

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Production Control (1964 Film, Video)

Director

M Hankinson

Producer

R N May

Subject

Business studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Production control introduced into a factory where erratic working methods have been causing stress.*

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Here’s a Health to the Barley Mow: A Century of Folk Customs and Ancient Rural Games (2011)

Subject

Anthropology; Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 365 minutes), £22.99

A collection of films celebrating British folk customs and rural games, ranging from morris and maypole dancing, sword and step dances to Shrove Tuesday football games and the Padstow Obby Oss ceremony. The...

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Yesterday’s Britain: Capital Transport (2003)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 50 minutes), £14.95

A compilation of four films that show changes in London transport from 1947 - 1983.

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Maglev (1979 Film)

Director

Bill Mason

Producer

Lionel Cole

Subject

Physics; Technology

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Describes an experimental vehicle using magnetic levitation for suspension.

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Soviet Influence, The: From Turksib to Nightmail (2011)

Subject

Film studies; History

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 163 minutes), £19.99

In the early 1930s, a small number of Soviet propaganda films were shown in Britain that excited filmmakers such as John Grierson, Paul Rotha and Basil Wright - luminaries of the British documentary film...

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Burma: Railway of Death (1997 Video)

Subject

History

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w/col. 45 min., 1997 sale: £10.99 (inclusive)

The story of the building of the Burma-Thailand railway by British prisoners of war during World War 2, combining the recollections of ex-prisoners who were involved with Japanese propaganda films of the time.

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